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All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
It took five minutes for the TV warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when
the kids got home from school?
Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a quarter was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter
for a penny?
Your Mom wore nylons that came
in two pieces?
All your male teachers wore neckties
and female teachers had their hair
done every day and wore high heels?
You got your windshield cleaned,
oil checked, and gas pumped,
without asking, all for free,
every time?
And you didn't pay for air? And,
you got trading stamps to boot?
Laundry detergent had free glasses,
dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege
to be taken out to dinner at a real
restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back
a grade if they failed. . .
and they did?
When a 57 Chevy was everyone's
dream car...to cruise, peel out,
lay rubber or watch submarine races,
and people went steady?
No one ever asked where the car
keys were because they were always
in the car, in the ignition,
and the doors were never locked?
Lying on your back in the grass
with your friends and saying things
like, "That cloud looks like a "
and playing baseball with no adults
to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the store came without
safety caps and hermetic seals
because no one had yet tried to
poison a perfect stranger?
And with all our progress,
don't you just wish, just once,
you could slip back in time and
savor the slower pace, and share
it with the children of today?
When being sent to the principal's
office was nothing compared to
the fate that awaited the student
at home?
Basically we were in fear for
our lives, but it wasn't because
of drive-by shootings, drugs,
gangs, etc.
Our parents and grandparents were a
much bigger threat! But we survived
because their love was greater
than the threat.
Send this on to someone who can
still remember
Nancy Drew,
the Hardy Boys
Laurel and Hardy
Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery
the Lone Ranger
The Shadow Knows
Nellie Bell
Roy and Dale
Trigger and Buttermilk.
As well as summers filled with bike
rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops,
bowling and visits to the pool, and
eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
Didn't that feel good, just to go
back and say,
"Yeah, I remember that"?
I am sharing this with you today
because it ended with a double
dog dare to pass it on.
To remember what a double dog
dare is, read on.
And remember that the perfect
age is somewhere between old
enough to know better and too
young to care.
How many of these do you remember?
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with
colored sugar water inside
Soda pop machines that dispensed
glass bottles
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
Home milk delivery in glass bottles
with cardboard stoppers
Newsreels before the movie
P.F. Fliers
Telephone numbers with a word
prefix...(Raymond 4-601).
Party lines
Peashooters
Howdy Dowdy
45 RPM records
Green Stamps
Hi-Fi's
Metal ice cubes trays with
levers
Mimeograph paper
Beanie and Cecil
Roller-skate keys
Cork pop guns
Drive ins
Studebakers
Washtub wringers
The Fuller Brush Man
Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
Tinkertoys
Erector Sets
The Fort Apache Play Set
Lincoln Logs
15 cent McDonald hamburgers
5 cent packs of baseball cards -
with that awful pink slab of bubble gum
Penny candy
35 cent a gallon gasoline
Jiffy Pop popcorn
Do you remember a time when...
Decisions were made by going
"eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?
Mistakes were corrected by
simply exclaiming,
"Do Over!"?
"Race issue" meant arguing about
who ran the fastest?
Catching the fireflies could
happily occupy an entire evening?
It wasn't odd to have two or three
"Best Friends"?
The worst thing you could catch
from the opposite sex was "cooties"?
Having a weapon in school meant
being caught with a slingshot?
A foot of snow was a dream come true?
Saturday morning cartoons weren't
30-minute commercials for action figures?
"Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?
Spinning around, getting dizzy,
and falling down was cause for giggles?
The worst embarrassment was being
picked last for a team?
War was a card game?
Baseball cards in the spokes
transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored
chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the
ultimate weapon?
If you can remember most or
all of these, then you have
lived!!!!!!!
Pass this on to anyone who
may need a break from their
"grown-up" life .
I double-dog-dare-ya
Hehehe Im not THAT old yet,
But I remember alot of this lol
